Improved response by peers after witnessed heroin overdose in Melbourne

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-330

  Kerr, Debra ^a,b   Dietze, Paul ^c,d   Kelly, Anne Maree ^a,e   Jolley, Damien ^d  

^a Joseph Epstein Centre for Emergency Medicine Research   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drug; Heroin; Overdose; Peer; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OVERDOSE; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; RESUSCITATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VICTORIA;

EID: 77049102017     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2009.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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